Open Plenary – Passive House: A Global Community of Action As Passive House grows, reaching across climates, countries, and continents, to China, and the global south, the conversations, and concerns are becoming more diverse. [...]
OD-PH2021-12 – Feeding the Masses: making Passive House commercial kitchens work What could be more opposite to Passive House than a commercial kitchen? Do we write off the multitude of cafeterias and restaurants that [...]
OD-PH2021-20 - Passive House Community Amenity: The Clayton Community Centre Community centers by their very nature are ambitious, often serving a diversity of populations, needs, and desires. Few community centers are more ambitious than [...]
Housing shortages, restrictive zoning, underserved communities, poor public health, a climate emergency, and environmental and social injustice, are just some of the intersecting forces at play as we seek to transform the built environment to [...]
OD-PH2021-22 – Where the Rubber Meets the Road: handing Passive House buildings over to operations & management Find out why, after the Passive House is built, the critical question is; Are operations and management [...]
OD-PH2021-21 – Small-Town EnerPHit: where sustainable energy funding meets sustainable community building Smart infrastructure investment can ignite greater prosperity for the many. The town of Kane Pennsylvania is leading such an effort by investing [...]
OD-PH2021-19 - Keeping It Real: the Passive House Standard meets American builders A contractor that “gets” Passive House, transforms the construction process and makes high-quality business as usual. Yet initial builder concerns can leave them [...]
As part of a global transition towards ‘outcomes-based codes’ US policymakers are now exploring various options for including the impact and calculation of embodied carbon into standardized code. This session will look at where [...]
The Buildings of Excellence is a $40 million competition that recognizes the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon-emitting multifamily buildings. Three winning projects will be explored: The Rise is a fully [...]
OD-PH2021-16 - Home on the Prairie: an American archetype remade for 2050 and beyond From Indigenous teepees to settler cabins, to Frank Lloyd Wright designs, home on the prairie captures our imagination. See a [...]
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